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– Photo: Amar Ujala
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Six members of the gang that opened bank accounts with fake Aadhaar cards and sold them to cyber fraudsters have been produced in the court and taken on remand for five days. Along with this, different police teams have been sent to Indore and Bihar. These teams will scrutinize the bank accounts revealed in the preliminary investigation and find out how much transaction has taken place so far. In this case, information is also being collected about postmen of Bihar and Jharkhand who provide undelivered Aadhar cards and bank employees who are negligent in opening accounts.
According to the information, the police had recently raided a flat in Ibrahimpura after getting information about purchasing of mobile SIM from different Aadhar cards with same type of photo. A total of seven people including six young men and one girl were arrested from here. During the search, hundreds of fake Aadhar cards, ATM cards, PAN cards, SIM cards, 20 mobile phones, 2 printers, 1 laptop, 1 PAN drive and copies of 8 account books were seized from them. During interrogation, it was revealed that this gang used to get PAN cards made through undelivered Aadhaar cards and later used to open accounts in banks by purchasing mobile SIMs with the same document. Later these accounts were sold to cyber fraudsters for Rs 10,000.
On-going investigation on remand
Police named the accused in this case as Shashikant alias Manish, Sapna alias Sadhana Paan, Ankit Kumar Sahu alias Sunil, Kaushal Mali alias Pankaj, Roshan Kumar, Ranjan Kumar alias Vinod, and Mohammad Titu alias Vijay. All of them are residents of Bihar. In this case, except the girl, all the other accused are being produced in the court and are being interrogated on remand. During preliminary interrogation, the accused have so far admitted to purchasing a total of 1800 mobile SIMs from different cities of the country. About 150 bank accounts have been detected in Bhopal and Indore, which are being investigated.
